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often told us a Chriftian should. He is even to compofed as to be now in his pulpit, ready to deliver a few exhorta tions to his parishioners as is the custom with us on fuch occafions. Follow me, fir, and you will hear 'h m." He followed the man without anfwering.

54. The chhurch was dimly lighted, except near the pulpit, where the venerable La Roche was feated. His people were now lifting up their voices to that Being whom their paftor had taught them ever to bless and revere. La Roche fat, his figure bending gently forward. his eyes half clofed, lifted up in filent devotion. A lamp, placed near him, threw a light strongly on his head, and marked the fhadowy lines of his age across the palenefs of his brow, thinly covered with grey hairs.

55. The mufic ceafed-La Roche fat for a moment, and nature wrung a few tears from him. His people were loud in their grief. The philofopher was not lefs affected than they. La Rocbe arofe. Father of mercies," faid he, 16 forgive thefe tears; affift thy fervant to lift up his foul to thee; to lift to thee the fouls of thy people! My friends, it is good fo to do; at all feafons it is good; but in the days of our diftrefs, what a privilege it is! Well faith the facred book, "Truft in the Lord; at all times truft in the Lord."

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$6." When every other fupport fails us, when the fountains of wordly comfort are dried up, let us, then feek thofe living waters (which flow from the throne of God. only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a fupreme Being, that our calamities can be borne in a manner which becomes a man."

57. "Humah wifdom is here of little ufe: for in proportion as it bellows comfort, it repreffe feeling, without which we may ceafe to be hurt by calamity, but we fhall also cease to enjoy happiness. I will not bid you be fenfible, my friends: 1 cannot."

58." I feel too much myfelf, and I am not ashamed of my feelings; bpt therefore, may I the more willingly be heard; therefore have I prayed God to give me ftrength to fpeak to you; to direct you to him, not with empty words, but with thefe tears; not from fpeculation, but from experience: that while you fee me fuffer, you may know alfo my confolation.

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59." You behold the mourner of his only child, the laft?» earthly ftay and bleffing of his declining years! Such a z child too! It becomes not me to speak of her virtues; yet it is but grateful to mention them, because they were exert ed towards myself. Not many days ago you faw her young, beautiful, virtuous and happy; ye who are parents will judge of my affliction now. But I look towards him who ftruck I fee the hand of a father amidst the chaftenings of my od."

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6. Oh! could I make you feel what it is to pour.out the heart when it is preffed down with many forrows; to pour it out with confidence to him in whofe hands are lifes and death; on whofe power awaits all hat the first enjoys, and in contemplation of whom difappears all that the last can inflict! For we are not as those who die without hope; we know that our Redeemer liveth; that we fhall live with n him, with our friends, his fervants, in that bleffed land wherer: forrow is unknown, and happinefs as endless as it. is perfect."

61. "Go then, mourn not for me; I have not lost my child: But a little while and we shall meet again never to be feparated. But ye are alfo my children. Would ye that I should not grieve without comfort? So live as he lived; that when your death fhall come, it may be the death of the righteous, and your latter end like his."

62. Such was the exhortation of La Roche: his audience anfwered it with tears. The good old man had dried up his at the altar of the Lord; his countenance had loft its fadnefs, and affumed the glow of faith and hope. The philofopher followed him into his houfe.

63. The infpiration of the pulpit was past; the fcenes they had laft met in, rushed again on his mind; La Roche threw his arms around his neck, and watered it with his tears. The other was equally affected; They went together in filence into the parlour, where the evening fervice was wont to be performed.

64. The curtains of the organs were opened; La Rocher ftarted back at the fight" Oh my friend," faid he, and his tears burft forth again. The philofopher had now recol lected himself, he ftept forward and drew then cùn tain clofe. The old man wiped off his tears, and taking his friend by the hand, "you fee my weakne, faid he ra

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65." I heard you," faid the other," in the pulpit; I rejoice that fuch confolation is yours."" It is, my friend," faid he, "and I-truft I fhall ever hold it faft. If there are any who doubt our faith, let them think of what importance religion is to calamity, and forbear to weaken its force; if they cannot reftore our happinefs, let them not take away the folace of our affliction."

66. The philofopher's heart was fmitten; and I have heard him long after confefs, that there were moments, when the remembrance overcame him even to weakness; when amidst all the pleasures of philofophical discovery and the pride of literary fame, he called to his mind the venerable figure of the good La Roche, and wifhed that he had never doubted.

FUNERAL OF GENERAL FRASER, NEAR SARATOGA— RELATED BY GENERAL BURGOYNE.

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1. BOUT funfet the corpfe of General Frafer was brought up the hill, attended only by the officers who had lived in his family. To arrive at the redoubt it paffed within view of the greatest part of both armies.

2. General Philips, General Reidefel and myself, whe Were ftanding together, were ftruck with the humility of the proceffion. They who were ignorant that privacy had been requested by General Fraser, might afcribe it to neglect.

3. We could neither endure that reflection, nor indeed restrain our natural propenfity to pay our laft attention to his remains. We joined the procemon, and were witnelfes of the affecting fcene that enfued.

4. The inceffant cannonade during the folemnity; the fteady attitude and unaltered voice of the chaplain who officiated, though frequently covered with duft, from the shot which the American artillery threw around us; the mute, but expreffive mixture of fenfibility and indignation upon every countenance; thefe objeels will remain to the laft of life on the minds of every man who was prefent.

5. The glowing dufkinefs of the evening added to the. fcenery, and the whole marked a character of that jums

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ture, that would make one of the finest fubjects for the pencil of a mafter that the field ever exhibited.

6. To the canvas and to the faithful page of a more important hiftorian, gallant friend, I confign thy memory.

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Story of Lady Harriet Ackland, by Gen. Burgoyne. ADY Harriet Ackland had accompanied her husband to Canada in the beginning of the year 1776. In the courfe of that campaign fhe had traversed a vaft fpace of country, in different extremities of feafon, and with difficulties that an European traveller will not eafily conceive, to attend, in a poor hut at Chamblee, upon his fick bed.

2. In the opening of the campaign of 1777, he was reftrained, by the pofitive injunctions of her husband, from offering herfelf to a fhare of the fatigue and hazard expected before Ticonderoga. The day after the conqueft of that place, he was badly wounded, and fhe crofled Lake Champlain to join him.

3. As foon as he recovered, Lady Harriet proceeded to follow his fortunes through the campaign, and at Fort Edward or the next camp, obtained a too wheel tumbril, which had been conftructed by the artificers of the artillery, fomiething fimilar to the carriage ufed for the mail upon the great roads in England.

4. Major Ackland commanded the British Grenadiers, who were attached to General Frafer's body of the army, and confequently were always the most advanced poft. Their fituations were often fo alert, that no perfon slept out of his clothes.

5. In one of thefe fituations, a tent in which the Major and his Lady were afleep, fuddenly took fire. An orderly Serjeant of the Grenadiers, with great hazard of fuffocati on, dragged out the first perfon he caught hold of. It proved to be the Major.

6. It happened, that in the fame inftant, his lady, not knowing what fhe did and perhaps not perfectly awake, providentially made her efcape, by creeping under the walls of the back part of the tent.

7. The first object fhe faw, upon the recovery of her fes, was the Major on the other fide, and in the fame in

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